Rassy cat & Howard, Sick with kidney failure Options

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**Joanne (jackjackbojack is a new member here. Two of her precious furkids (Rassy cat & Howard ) are very ill with kidney failure. With Joanne's permission, I'll do my best to get her posts together (along with their replies), so that she can have her own thread. **

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My two babies are dying of Kidney failure. There is just so little time left. My Rassy cat is 18.5 years old. My Howard is 16. I have been through this once before with my kittywillow. People here are so compassionate and kind. I can't stand it when people say to me its just a cat. Its not. These are my babies. I know how much joy those special little ones bring into our lives.

We enclosed our patios and made them into cat rooms. (We have one upstairs and one downstairs. We refer to our cats as the ups and downs. My up cats will soon cross over the Rainbow. All I will have are some pictures and lots of wonderful memories.

I don't want them to suffer. Rassy cat is still holding on. I know he doesn't want to leave me. Howard still has some time left before the curtain falls. I told Rassy Cat whenever he feels its time, to just let go. I would much prefer to see him die peacefully in his sleep rather than having to put either down. Howard is so attached to Ras, and sick that we might put him down just so he doesn't have to suffer the heartbreak of loosing his best friend esp in his condition.

I just continue to check on my babies. Rassy cat sleeps so soundly. I just keep checking to see if he will wake up. I try not to cry in front of him. He knows how much I adore him. And the last thing I would ever want to do is keep him alive if he is in pain.

Today, I told him, whenever you are ready to let go, its ok. Always know, I love you as much as life itself.

[Furkidlets' Mom]

Hi. Only have a minute. I suggest having Mew's blood pressure checked, as Nissa started yelling louder than usual and w/i a few months, her bl. pressure skyrocketed suddenly and she got glaucoma in one eye and lost her sight in it. (if not for her homeopathic doc {NOT the same as just a holistic vet}, and the homeo. remedies we used for this, she may have had to have gone for surgery to remove her eye, and she probably wouldn't have survived an operation. High bl. pressure is another fairly common thing with CRF. Hope that vet has a bl. pressure cuff for cats, as they're not all that commonly bought by vets. We ended up going to a specialist clinic, where the one tech was so good at taking bl. pressure in animals, she didn't have to use the awful tape to keep it in place, which was great cuz Nissa went into a panic when they had to remove the tape from her fur (on her front leg).